NAME
Makefile::Parser - A simple parser for Makefiles
VERSION
This document describes Makefile::Parser 0.212 released on 17 August
2011.
SYNOPSIS
use Makefile::Parser;
$parser = Makefile::Parser->new;
# equivalent to ->parse('Makefile');
$parser->parse or
die Makefile::Parser->error;
# get last value assigned to the specified variable 'CC':
print $parser->var('CC');
# get all the variable names defined in the Makefile:
@vars = $parser->vars;
print join(' ', sort @vars);
@roots = $parser->roots; # Get all the "root targets"
print $roots[0]->name;
@tars = $parser->targets; # Get all the targets
$tar = join("\n", $tars[0]->commands);
# get the default target, say, the first target
# defined in Makefile:
$tar = $parser->target;
$tar = $parser->target('install');
# get the name of the target, say, 'install' here:
print $tar->name;
# get the dependencies for the target 'install':
@depends = $tar->depends;
# access the shell command used to build the current target.
@cmds = $tar->commands;
# parse another file using the same Parser object:
$parser->parse('Makefile.old') or
die Makefile::Parser->error;
# get the target who is specified by variable EXE_FILE
$tar = $parser->target($parser->var('EXE_FILE'));
DESCRIPTION
This is a simple parser for Makefiles. At this very early stage, the
parser only supports a limited set of features, so it may not recognize
most of the advanced features provided by certain make tools like GNU
make. Its initial purpose is to provide basic support for another module
named Makefile::GraphViz, which is aimed to render the building process
specified by a Makefile using the amazing GraphViz library. The Make
module is not satisfactory for this purpose, so I decided to build one
of my own.
WARNING!!! This stuff is highly experimental and is currently at
pre-alpha stage, so production use is strongly discouraged. Right now
it's just a toy for parsing trivial makefiles.
IMPORTANT!!! If you're looking for something more serious for parsing
GNU makefiles, please see Makefile::Parser::GmakeDB instead. The GmakeDB
parser has passed 51% of GNU make's official test suite as of this
writing.
If you're looking for something that can parse makefiles losslessly,
take a look at the Makefile::DOM module which may fit your needs.
SYNTAX SUPPORTED
The current parser implementation has been trying to support a common
feature set of both MS NMAKE and GNU make. In the future, different
formats of Makefiles will be handled by individual subclasses such as
Makefile::Parser::Gmake.
Variable Definition
MIN_T_FILES = $(PAT_COVER_FILES) t\optest.t t\my_perl.exe.t t\types.cod.t \
t\catln.t t\exe2hex.t t\hex2bin.t t\bin2hex.t t\bin2asm.t t\ndisasmi.t \
t\Idu.t t\pat_tree.t t\state_mac.t t\Idu-Util.t t\cidu.t \
t\opname.t t\error.t t\operand.t t\01disasm.t t\02disasm.t t\03disasm.t \
t\disasm_cover.t t\ndisasm.t
T_FILES = t\main.cod.t t\bin2hex.exe.t t\hex2bin.exe.t $(MIN_T_FILES)
DIRFILESEP = ^\
"Simply expanded" variables' definition sytax in GUN make is also
supported:
FOO := blah blah blah
which is considered invalid in Win32 NMake. "Recursively expanded"
variables are currently treated as "simply expanded" variables.
Variable redefinition can be handled as well:
CC = cl
%.obj : %.c
$(CC) /nologo /c $<
CC = gcc
%.o : %.c
$(CC) -c $<
Variable expansion sytax
${abc}
is accepted, whereas Win32 NMAKE will complain about it.
Currently, environment variables defined in the command-line are not
imported.
I have no idea what default value should be assigned to built-in
variables like $(MAKE) and $(CC). Currently they will be left
untouched if they're not set explicitly in the Makefile.
Due to the current implementation, expansion of unrecognized
built-in varaibles and variables not previously defined by Makefile
will NOT be performed. This behavior is different from any practial
make tools, but is reasonable at this early stage of this parser.
Explicit Rules
$(CIDU_DLL) : C\idu.obj C\idu.def
link /dll /nologo /debug /out:$@ /def:C\idu.def C\idu.obj
$(CIDU_LIB) : $(CIDU_DLL)
C\idu.obj : C\idu.c C\idu.h
cd C
cl /nologo /c /I . idu.c
cd ..
smoke : all pat_cover t\pat_cover.t \
t/pat_cover.ast.ast
perl util\run-smoke.pl . smoke.html
perl txt2html.pl t\*.t t\*.ast
clean:
copy t\pat_cover.ast.ast.html ..\ /Y
$(RM_F) encoding.html encoding.pod state_mac.xml encoding.ast \
pat_tree.ast state_mac.ast \
main.cod pat_cover.pod pat_cover.html types.cod \
hex2bin.exe hex2bin.obj
Specital variable $@ will be expanded using its value in the
context.
Implicit Rules
Pattern Rules
%.obj : %.asm
masm /t $
Commands after ';'
all : ; echo 'hello, world!'
Specital variable $@ will be expanded using its value in the
context.
For the list of features which will be added very soon, take a look at
the "TODO" section.
The Makefile::Parser Class
This class provides the main interface to the Makefile parser.
METHODS
"$obj = Makefile::Parser->new()"
It's the constructor for the Parser class. You may provide the path
of your Makefile as the argument which . It is worth mentioning that
the constructor will *not* call ->parse method internally, so please
remember calling ->parse after you construct the parser object.
"$obj->parse()"
"$obj->parse($Makefile_name)"
"$obj->parse($Makefile_name, { var => value, ... })"
This method parse the specified Makefile (default to 'Makefile').
When an error occurs during the parsing procedure, "parse" will
return undef. Otherwise, a reference to Parser object itself is
returned. It is recommended to check the return value every time you
call this method. The detailed error info can be obtained by calling
the "error" method.
You can also pass a hash reference to specify initial variables and
their values. Note that these variables are treated as "defaults" so
assignments in the makefile have higher priority.
"$obj->error()"
It returns the error info set by the most recent failing operation,
such as a parsing failure.
"$obj->var($variable_name)"
The var method returns the value of the given variable. Since the
value of variables can be reset multiple times in the Makefile, so
what you get is always the last value set to the variable. It's
worth noting that variable reassignment can be handled appropriately
during parsing since the whole parsing process is a one-pass
operation compared to the multiple-pass strategy used by the CPAN
module Make.
"@vars = $obj->vars"
This will return all the variables defined in the Makefile. The
order may be quite different from the order they appear in the
Makefile.
"$obj->target($target_name)"
This method returns a Makefile::Target object with the name
specified. It will returns undef if the rules for the given target
is not described in the Makefile. It is worth noting that only
targets with a definition body will be considered as a *target*
here.
When $target_name is omitted, this method will return the default
target, say, the first target defined in Makefile, to the user. This
can be handy if you try to build a make tool on top of this module.
It is important not to send something like "$(MY_LIB)" as the target
name. Only raw values are acceptable. If you really want to do
something like this, please use the following code:
my $tar = $parser->target($parser->var('MY_LIB'));
but this code will break if you have reassigned values to variable
MY_LIB in your Makefile.
"@targets = $obj->targets()"
This returns all the targets in Makefile. The order can be
completely different from the order they appear in Makefile. So the
following code will not work if you want to get the default target
(the first target):
@tars = $parser->targets;
print $tars[0];
Please use the following syntax instead:
print $parser->target;
The type of the returned list is an array of Makefile::Target
objects.
"@roots = $obj->roots()"
The "roots" method returns the "root targets" in Makefile. The
targets which there're no other targets depends on are called the
*root targets*. For example, *install*, *uninstall*, and *veryclean*
are all root targets in the Makefile generated by the
*ExtUtils::MakeMaker* module. On the other hand, *clean* and *test*
are not, which may be somewhat counterintuitive. That's because
there're some other targets depend on *clean*, *test*, or both.
The type of the returned list is an array of Makefile::Target
objects.
PACKAGE VARIABLES
$Makefile::Parser::Strict
When this variable is set to true, the parser will sense syntax
errors and semantic errors in the Makefile. Default off.
$Makefile::Parser::Debug
When this variable is set to true, the parser will enter Debug Mode.
This variable is not supposed to be used directly by the user.
INTERNAL METHODS
post_parse
Iterate the Makefile AST to apply implicit rules in the following
form:
%.o : %.c
$(CC) -c $<
solve_imp($depend)
Solve implicit rules as many as possible using one target name that
appears in other target's dependency list.
The Makefile::Target Class
This class overloads the "" operator so its instances can be
automatically converted to strings using their names.
METHODS
"$class->new($target_name, $colon_type)"
This is the constructor for class Makefile::Target. The first
argument is the target name which can't be a Makefile variable, the
second one is a single colon or a double colon which is used by the
rule definition in Makefile.
This method is usually called internally by the Makefile::Parser
class. It doesn't make much sense to me if the user has a need to
call it manually.
"$obj->name()"
It will return the name of the current Target object.
"@prereqs = $obj->prereqs()"
You can get the list of prerequisites (or dependencies) for the
current target. If no dependency is specified in the Makefile for
the target, an empty list will be returned.
"@prereqs = $obj->depends()"
Alias to the "prereqs" method. This method is only preserved for the
sake of backward-compatibility. Please use "prereqs" instead.
"$obj->commands()"
This method returns a list of shell commands used to build the
current target. If no shell commands is given in the Makefile, an
empty array will be returned.
SVN REPOSITORY
For the very latest version of this module, check out the source from
. There is anonymous
access to all.
TODO
The following syntax will be implemented soon:
* Add support the remaining GNU make makefile builtin functions:
"origin", "value", "call", "flavor", and "eval".
* Add support for recursively-expanded variables.
* Implement rules with multiple targets
* Serious support for "Recursively expanded" variables in GUN make
* Comments that span multiple lines via trailing backslash
* Lines that don't contain just comments
* Literal "#" escaped by a leading backslash
* The include directive
* Look for 'GNUmakefile' and 'makefile' automatically
* MAKEFILES Variable
* MAKEFILE_LIST Variable
* .VARIABLES Variable
BUGS
Please feel free to report bugs or send your wish-list to
.
SEE ALSO
plmake, makesimple, Makefile::Parser::GmakeDB, Makefile::GraphViz, Make.
AUTHOR
Zhang "agentzh" Yichun, ""
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2005-2011 by Zhang "agentzh" Yichun (章亦春).
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.